Text:

• Patterson, David A. and Hennessy, John L. Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface 5^th edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2013.

You will also use the online material.

Everyone should have a copy of the MIPS Reference Data (Green Card). One copy is in the front of new books. You may use a copy of this on the test and you SHOULD bring this to most classes.

Older versions of this text book will be useful, but they really do a good job of updating the material in this rapidly changing subject.